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bootup: move 'usermodehelper_enable()' a little earlier

Commit d5767c53535a ("bootup: move 'usermodehelper_enable()' to the end
of do_basic_setup()") moved 'usermodehelper_enable()' to end of
do_basic_setup() to after the initcalls. But then I get failed to let
uvesafb work on my computer, and lose the splash boot.

So maybe we could start usermodehelper_enable a little early to make
some task work that need eary init with the help of user mode.

[ I would *really* prefer that initcalls not call into user space - even
the real 'init' hasn't been execve'd yet, after all! But for uvesafb
it really does look like we don't have much choice.

I considered doing this when we mount the root filesystem, but
depending on config options that is in multiple places. We could do
the usermode helper enable as a rootfs_initcall()..

So I'm just using wang yanqing's trivial patch. It's not wonderful,
but it's simple and should work. We should revisit this some day,
though. - Linus ]

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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wangyanqing and committed by
Linus Torvalds
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init/main.c
··· 730 730 driver_init(); 731 731 init_irq_proc(); 732 732 do_ctors(); 733 - do_initcalls(); 734 733 usermodehelper_enable(); 734 + do_initcalls(); 735 735 } 736 736 737 737 static void __init do_pre_smp_initcalls(void)